Q Light Controller+

Hello everybody,
I was trying to find a way to export/save/extract in some format the list of equipment I have loaded into QLC in order to keep my inventory aligned with what I have inside the program. I have also tried to search the forum with keywords like print, extract or excel with no success (maybe I am not searching with proper words...).
Could you please provide some help?
Many thanks.
Luca

This is not a fixed solution but what if you open the project file with a text editor?
You will find all your fixtures in use.

Create a backup before editing - if you break the structure of the file, you break your QLC+ project.

Thank you Fredje,
I have already followed this way:
- copied file to something else
- edit to remove all the xml tags
this took (more) than a while, the bad is that if you change something inside the original file you must re-do all the stuff
So this was the reason why I was looking for something already built...
Thanks
Luca

In a terminal, a command like would print a tidy list of the names you gave your fixtures in yourfile.qxw.
Similarly you could grep for <Manufacturer> or <Model> to obtain these values as defined in the fixture files.

And that's without the need to make a copy to work from, or the risk to destroy your workspace file.

I totally suck at writing scripts, so I can't provide you one, nor do I know what OS you're on and if it were useful to you.
But it should be possible to write a shell script so that it outputs a structured list from those tags in one go.

You can do this in QLC+5, just make a copy before you open it

In QLC+ 4 you can export your fixture list to a qxfl file that you can import in other projects. It's an xml file, take a look to this export feature.

Dear all,
after thinking a lot, and trying to do script like the one suggested using grep (unfortunately I am on a windows machine...) I dusted off my old visual basic 6 and wrote the attached program, maybe someone could find it useful (all sources included).
It reads a QXW file, makes a copy, and create a new file with CSV extension that could be opened with excel.
Many thanks for all the good suggestion.
Regards
Luca

hello Luca, this is really helpful! thank you very much

Hi Luca,
this is super helpfull.
Thank you so much